The major impediment to performing a benefit–cost analysis in many fields of applied
economics, such as those dealing with culture, environment, health, and transportation, is …

Informational Cities are the prototypical spaces of the knowledge society. Public libraries
play an important role as parts of the digital, smart, knowledge and creative infrastructures of …

Despite its undoubted importance to policy makers and practitioners, cultural value remains
a highly contested concept. Empirical work in the area has, meanwhile, been hampered by …

Local governments spend over 12billionannuallyfundingtheoperationof15,
427publiclibrariesintheUnitedStates,yetweknowlittleabouttheireffects.Weusedatadescribingthenearuniverseofpu …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore a wide range of performance measures,
while acknowledging that of late, outcome measures have become increasingly important …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to compare the perceived benefits of public libraries
and their structure in the major areas of life between Finland, Norway and the Netherlands …

Abstract Evaluation of cultural heritage organisations and the returns on the resources they
are provided with is becoming increasingly important, not only because of the economic …

Libraries are one of the most representative institutions of cultural heritage in that they are
charged with safeguarding information, fostering knowledge and activating memory. Over …

The article discusses two instant measures of affective value of information objects:
Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) and Experienced Utility (EU). The potential utility of these …

Purpose–This paper intends to illustrate an application of data envelopment analysis (DEA)
to assess library performance from an efficiency standpoint. Design/methodology/approach …